The sustainability story is as big as Wal-Mart and as a local as a neighborhood coffee shop. So, where do you begin? Use this basics package as a guide for covering sustainability topics.
Recent news that carbon dioxide levels in the air have reached milestone levels (or near-milestone; some numbers were revised) got me to pondering some possible business stories related to the gas itself rather than to the larger and more amorphous topic of climate change. If you need to brush up on your science, here’s the entry [...]
Earth Day 2013 will be here on April 22. Organizers say more than 1 billion people observe the eco-friendly event; it was just announced that this year will feature the global theme “The Face of Climate Change.” Stateside, entities from government offices like the Environmental Protection Agency and the USDA to corporations to communities are commemorating [...]
You never know when TV commercials, radio spots or even junk mail will turn up a business story or two. Driving along the other day I realized the CEO of a regional upscale grocery chain in Michigan was, in one of the folksy ads he is known for, announcing that his stores from now on [...]
Sunday’s double-header of the Daytona 500 and the 85th annual Academy Awards isn’t just for sports and showbiz writers; the big spectator events offer plenty of spin-off angles and scope for business journalists of all stripes. Even if you aren’t near Florida or Hollywood, you can tap in to some related action. Obviously viewing parties [...]
As the most telegenic first-world problem in years continues to play out in the saga of the powerless Carnival Triumph and its hungry, mostly incommunicado and sewage-dodging thousands of passengers, you may be looking for more business angles to the story. Since power knocked out the ship’s power off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, discomforts have escalated and [...]
Jobs and the economy will be center stage when President Obama delivers the 2013 State of the Union address this evening. Immigration, the across-the-board budget cuts of sequestions (a.k.a. the fiscal cliff), energy and other issues relevant to business also are likely to be mentioned by the president and in the two Republican rebuttals that [...]
This week’s blog posts have taken on the inadvertent theme of food, food and more food — but the many facets of production and consumption are a massive part of the United States economy and take a fairly large bit out of household budgets, so it’s a topic worth spending time on. And with the [...]
Will the latest lead contamination cleanup be more effective than the last? That’s the question that led to Valerie Wigglesworth’s three-part series “The Burden of Lead” in the Dallas Morning News. She compares the pending cleanup of Exide Technologies’ battery recycling plant and lead smelter to that of a smelter plant shuttered in 1984. The [...]
The mega trade expo known as the CES, or Consumer Electronics Show, kicks off Jan. 8 and as usual will generate quite a buzz nationwide as new technology, gadgets, apps and other innovations for the home, car and beyond are unveiled. It’s one of the largest of the annual trade shows, with more than 150,000 [...]
